I was doing my usual trawling for 2nd hand pick ups and came across a semi destroyed bass guitar that had a pick up I wanted, so I bought the lot and decided to restore/rebuild it.

The previous owner had taken it apart to refinish it and lost interest (I found out why, later)
It came as a box of bits, and with only a few missing pieces of hardware I had lying around was able to get it to playable condition.

And it mostly looked like this:
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Looks ok, eh?
It sure played ok.

Sadly it also looked like this:

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and this

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